The Malake. New Steamer for the Islands
The Grangemouth Dockyard Company, of Grangemouth, launched the steamer Malake on the 8th December, for Burns, Philp & Co., for their Island…
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Steamer Afire Clan Macwilliam Loss Survivors Reach Suva Suva
The officers and crew of the steamer Clan Macwilliam have arrived from Vavau, where their steamer was destroyed by fire last month…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Steamer Sir Dudley De Chair. Sold to the Adelaide S.s. Co
The Adelaide Steamship Co., Ltd., have purchased tho Dorman, Long steamer Sir Dudley de Chair. She is to be renamed Terka, which is a native…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nine Stowaways on Steamer
A Wireless message received in Sydney last night from the Howard Smith steamer Bombala, bound from Queensland ports to Sydney, stated that nine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →14 Killed in Attack by Pirates Gallant Defence of Bridge Saves Steamer Officer Killed Shanghai
Another serious attack by pirates has occurred in Canton waters, despite the activities against piracy recently…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Fall From Steamer
While working on the steamer Ballarat yesterday a fireman named Lawson fell from the deck rall of the steamer on to the wharf below and was killed…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Tourists' Peril Big Launch Adrift Lifeboat to Rescue Sensation at Broken Bay
DRIFTING helplessly towards the rocks in a heavy swell, near the entrance to Broken Bay, a motor launch containing fifty or sixty tourists was in a perilous plight yesterday afternoon until taken in tow by a lifeboat…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →General Average. P. & O. Cape Steamer Bendigo
In consequence of the P. & O. Cape steamer Bendigo having to put back to Falmouth with a broken tatlshaft, certain damage has been done, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Wrecks Are Sent to Gaol Took Rail Property Shell-shock Victim Melbourne
An impassioned plea for mercy was made this morning by counsel on behalf of Malcolm Murray and Albert Thomas, two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wrecked Lives of Two Women Three Dead in N.Z. Love Tragedy
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thursday.--"Wilson was apparently a scoundrel, wrecking the lives of two women, remarked the coroner today, returning a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Engine Trouble. Schooner Hermes. Brisbane
The master of the steamer ChangTE, Captain F. Gambrill, radioed this afternoon that the New Guinea Government's auxiliary yacht Hermes, bound from Sydney to Rabaul, had…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Another Madman Runs Amok in City Woman's Shop Wrecked
Following the escapade of a madman who fougat Constable Ban [?] for half an hour, armed with a hummer and chisel, outside the Cri[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Firemen Delay Steamer
HOBART, Sunday.--After having been held up at Hobart since Wednesday through the action of six stokers and trimmers, who refused to return to the ship because they were at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Steamer's Unique Cargo
What is regarded as a record in size as to single case consignments on ships coming to Australia is presented by two cases on the Australian Commonwealth Line steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →War Graves Our Pilgrims France Gallipoli Chartering Steamer Melbourne
I PILGRIMAGE to the war graves in France and on Gallipoli is being organised by the Imperial ex-Service…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Calcutta Steamer. Nagina to Sail February 7
Burns, Philp & Coy., Ltd., advise that the British-India steamer Nagina is to leave Calcutta on February 7 with jute goods for Fremantle,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Blown Over Residents at Mayfield Cyclonic Storm Nearly Twenty Houses Wrecked Newcastle
Between 15 and 20 houses were wrecked to-day by a cyclonic storm at Mayfield, which swept along a narrow strip. Many people had narrow escapes. Some of them…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Steamer in Gale Woman Passenger Dies Melbourne
IN a howling gale In Baa Strain last night the steamer Nalrana had a particularly rough passage from Launceston Mrs. S. A. Simpeon, a resident of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A War Wreck Methylated Drinker Six Months' Gaol
"I HAVE to live Hip best way I can since I returned from the war," said James Ryan, 48. at the Central Court to-day, when he was sentenced…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Tornado Leaves a Trail of Wreckage Trees Mown Down Like Grass; Roofs Blown From Houses; 'Phone Wires Tangled Fire Ball and Sand Storm
NEWCASTLE, Tuesday. -- Blowing from the south-west at 90 to 100 miles an hour, about 1 o'clock this afternoon, a tornado left a trail of destruction in its wake across Waratah and Mayfield…
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